My most significant challenge that I have faced is getting better grades in school. The steps that I had/have taken to overcome this challenge is to take better notes in class, reread my notes, read the chapter we are studying, make flash cards if needed, and to ask questions when i don’t know what is going on. When doing all of these steps I was able to get my grades up and keep them up.
In my junior year of high school I played water polo. In the beginning of the season everything was fine, it wasn’t until the middle of the season when everything went downhill.
That year I had taken the normal junior classes such as; English, Algebra 2, Chemistry, World
History, Spanish 2, and Sports Med. . To me some of the classes like Algebra 2 and Chemistry
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Since I did not speak up about the hard classes, I started to get bad grades. My grades were so bad that they got me on academic probation and I wasn’t allowed to play water polo for
6 weeks. When I had received the letter saying that I couldn’t play, that was when the reality had hit. I needed to improve my grades, not only for the purpose of water polo but also for my transcript. I couldn’t believe that not only did I let my team down but I also let myself down. I was always telling myself that I need to have a higher GPA than a 3.0 every semester. This was the first time in my life that I had less than a 2.0. Instead of crying over spilled milk, I was determined to get my grades up.
When I went home that day, I went straight to my room and I had designed an academic checklist. I had made a list of things I needed to do in order to get my grades back up. Along with the checklists, I had grabbed a piece of paper and made a series of questions to ask my teachers. After making the list and questions, my next step was to actually put in time and effort into studying. I had followed my checklist and immediately I started to see improvement. By the end of the 6 weeks I had gotten my grades up and I was able to
You couldn't make our meeting this week. You had to attend the Career Fair on Wednesday. However, I have seen you working on your assignments. Keep working on your classes. Your grades are improving, but you need to work hard to keep this good track. Please check your grades in the Excel document I attached to my email.
Interestingly, although I was a member of the team, I truly was not aware of the problem at hand. I, above and beyond, was a novice player and almost never received anything but positive encouragement from the coach. It is important to realize that I had never played, or even seen, the game of water polo before coming to Oxy, and therefore learned a lot by coming to practice and watching and learning from the reminders and criticism that the coach would give.
even farther ahead. So I switched to homeschooling. Through that I was able to continue
first day, when I saw that the counselor that I had been assigned to work with
persuaded toward it. As well as planning out my papers, and to make sure it’s the way I truly want it to
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Difficulties came earliest in the year. After my first six weeks the class received our first progress report. On my progress report I had received
Aside from work I have done outside the class, I have attended all classes, on time, and ready t...
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